Health Information Technology (HIT) is becoming increasingly useful and implemented more frequently by health care providers throughout the United States. This technology may include Electronic Health Records (EHR) or Electronic Medical Records (EMR). The shift towards implementing Electronic Health Records has a significant influence on the quality of care provided by health care providers; however, some providers still stick to the basic paper documentation due to skepticism and disregard the
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“Supporting Mobile Health Clinics: The Children’s Health Fund of New York City” The Children’s Health Fund is a national non-profit organization that was founded on providing health care to the nation’s needy and underprivileged children. The CHF began over 25 years ago by reaching out to homeless kids in New York City and delivering health care through a mobile medical clinic (MMC) driven around the city to locations and neighborhoods seeking out children to provide basic health care to. Over the
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efforts to incorporate these triple bottom line (people, planet, profit) into its strategic thinking and business planning. Global Health Communities (GHC) is a non-profit healthcare system which service millions people across Chicago metropolitan area. GHC is committed to provide the best health needs to the family members in their communities. Currently, the Global Health Communities consists of 13
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of its staff members work from home utilizing electronic medical records for all of its healthcare information system. Anthem, Inc. serves all ages, from birth to elderly and offers different health programs for all their different members. Some of these programs include behavioral health program, disease management program, and complex case management. Anthem, Inc. is accredited by the NCQA, which is one of the top leading health care accreditation organization. Anthem, Inc. has many different
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Comparing and contrasting Sentara Health System 2010 and Eastern Maine Medical Center 2008 Davies Organizational Award Minerva Ndikum Medical Informatics 6208 DE PhD Philip Aspden This paper compares and contrasts eight different views of two winners of Davies enterprise award. The HIMSS Nicholas E. Davies award recognizes excellence in the implementation and use of health information technology, specifically electronic health records (EHRs), for healthcare organizations
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Health Informatics and Healthcare Introduction Health informatics as defined by Shi and Singh 2015, as the application of information science to improve efficiency, accuracy, reliability of healthcare service, and inclusion of healthcare delivery. Healthcare informatics is becoming more complex than any other time in recent memory, the foundation needed to bolster device utilization and interoperability is more expanded, and there is even a more extensive scope of utilization
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Enhancing the Power of Health Care Nancnrs University Of Phoenix Health Care Organizations and Delivery Systems HCS/531 Professor March 17, 2013 Enhancing the power of Health Care The ability to access Medical records is a growing concern “President Barack Obama endorsed a goal set by the Bush administration of establishing an electronic health record for every patient by 2014” (Lewis, 2009). With only one year left before the 2014 deadline, Los Angeles County Medical Center (LAC+USC)
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that there are obvious reasons for the incorporation of health informatics to justify apparent flaws in the government programs such as Medicaid, TRICARE and Federal Employees Health Benefits Program are three legislative policies which impede its progress. With most disciplines there exists certain parameters which provide the basic focus for which the disciplines fashion themselves around. In all there are seven elements in the public health sector; http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/su6103a5
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John Smith C257 Task 1 Data aggregation as it pertains to healthcare is the collection of health data from individual health records that are then grouped into a collective database that can be further analyzed and used for research. This data does not identify individual patients, but instead focuses on groups of patients which are then used for research purposes such as finding linking factors that could be the cause of certain illnesses. Also by having multiple sources for this data allows
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culture and communities of practice, all under pinned by trust. It also poses a problem because within the healthcare arena the entire nation is trying to standardize and move into Electronic Health Records (EHR), which is simply a shift from the original paper format of a patient’s medical history and record to a computerized, electronic standpoint. This situation necessitates research into how to contextualize implementation of information security within this environment. The application of a contextual
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